We’ve not posted much recently as we’re preparing to move this blog on to the Noisy Little Monkey domain proper soon… if only paying work wouldn’t keep getting in the way!
Anyway…. we couldn’t resist sharing this with you, which we found originally on Andrew Girdwood‘s blog.
Try to remember as you’re watching this video, that the guy in it is using Firefox 4 beta. (“Beta” versions of software are pretty much working versions that crash a lot, but organisations release them so uber geeks and clever people can report any bugs they find, prior to the official release. It’s something that Microsoft clearly did with Windows 7, but not Vista or 2000). The current release that people are using is Firefox 3.6… and while most people don’t have touch screens in the office or at home, they sure do on their iPhones and Androids.
I just wanted to say a BIG BIG thank you for all the work you have done for us. Having bashed away at SEO for a while and got almost nowhere we really seem to have made progress since you started to help us. Today we are in the middle of page 1 for “trampolines” and high on page 2 for “trampoline”. We are really delighted.
Please pass this on to Casey too for I know she has had a part to play as well.
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That’s from the director of Atlantic Trampolines, who used to use some people who clearly didn’t think about how best to do the job. Now he pays Noisy Little Monkey half as much as he used to pay his old, useless ‘SEO’ company, gets real, tangible results and, since we manage AdWords for him too, his conversion ratio from click to customer has gone through the roof.
If you’d like to watch your cost per sale drop and your number of sales rise, talk to Jon Payne. He’s the monkey with the ideas.
Ad agencies! Why did you leave it so late to get your website sorted?
No 1 on Google. Finger lickin' good.
I know, I know. You thought the internet was a bit of a fad and anyway, you were so busy buying space for your clients in newspapers and designing stuff that would work equally well on the side of a bus shelter and in the colour supplements that you totally forgot about your own website.
That’s kind of what happened with the lovely people at SBW Advertising and while they were doing loads of fantastic work for their customers their (totally Flash animated) website slipped out of view on Google. It didn’t even feature if you searched for their name.
Since Noisy Little Monkey worked on their search engine optimisation and helped them understand how to lever the power of social media, SBW are now number one for several highly sought after terms and they’re getting enquiries from small businesses and corporate enterprise clients because they’re no 1 on Google.
Casey (The Queen of Ecommerce) recently came across this amazing product. We could use a few here at The Old Mill, where it’s never very warm… I wonder if they do them in Noisy Little Monkey green?
No 1 in natural search, no 3 in Maps & no 2 in AdWords
“I got no bookings with my old website and since we’re set up to be an ‘automated hotel’ that was a problem. Since Jon Payne and the Noisy Little Monkey team have taken over and shown me what I need to do, we get 95% of our bookings through the website and our occupancy is over 85%.
We don’t use booking engines like Late Rooms, Booking.com or Expedia, so we don’t pay their high commissions. We simply have a website that has been designed to feature highly in Google’s organic results, an AdWords campaign that Noisy Little Monkey set up and trained us to manage, plus a really great listing in Google Maps”
So says Shaun, the manager of Hotel24Seven, a revolutionary hotel in the centre of Bristol.
With a no 1 ranking on Google for this search term and a top 3 ranking (in organic listings, map listings and AdWords) for a number of others, like most of our customers, Hotel24Seven are a small business out-performing the corporates in a very competitive market.
Noisy Little Monkey are in the process of redesigning the website following “The Formula” to convert even more visitors into customers, so watch this space…
It’s the leading pool table and if you search for it on Google, you’ll see our client who sells pool tables at No 1 in the natural search and No 1 in the product search.
It’s also No 2 in the Google AdWords sponsored listings, which is OK, since we have the majority of the premium on screen real estate.
This is just one of our many sucesses on Google for our clients.
Want to know more? Try our SEO or AdWords services today.
Actually, tomorrow would be better. We’re kind of busy training new staff today.
It’s nearly 17:30 and there’s not much to say (apart from that we’ve launched an optimised website here), so we’ll simply share this comedy genuis with you.
The poll was the idea of Jon Payne, the great ape here at Noisy Little Monkey and a man who’s hatred of early mornings is only marginally outweighed by his hatred of early mornings on Mondays and Chihuahuas. It seems that in launching it at 9AM (GMT) last week, he hoped to find kindred spirits in the online community and this would prove that he was not a fattish, balding, lonely curmudgeon.
Sadly this is not the case, a whopping 87% of people polled responded that they loved Mondays.
We should point out that many of the people who took part in the poll were from a small business user group for whom Noisy Little Monkey work to promote their websites.
Undoubtedly, the people who ‘love Mondays’ leave work on Friday to enjoy a weekend of unbridled hedonism. Returning on Monday they find their inboxes stuffed full of orders and enquiries from customers and potential clients who’ve discovered them online thanks to the efforts of Noisy Little Monkey. As illustrated a recent Monday morning email we received after working on the SEO & AdWords for a client:
“Just a quick sales update for you….
Mental Weekend!
We sold 10 pool tables.
Our best weekend ever”
Poor old Jon. By helping these people build business online, he’s only serving to alienate himself further. Until about 10AM when he gradually transforms into an enthusiastic, fattish, balding web idealist again.
